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The Exemplary Hercules from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and Beyond

Beschreibung

The Exemplary Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - in European culture from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond, raising questions about his role as model of the princely ruler.

Autor

Valerie Mainz (PhD University College, University of London 1992) is the author of Days of Glory? Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). Between 1992 and 2018 she worked as a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, at the University of Leeds. Emma Stafford (PhD London 1999) is Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Leeds. She is author of Worshipping Virtues (Classical Press of Wales/Duckworth 2000) and Herakles (Routledge 2012), and coordinator of the Leeds Hercules Project (https: //herculesproject.leeds.ac.uk/). Contributors are: Ioannis Deligiannis Paul Gwynne Anne-Sophie Laruelle Annie Verbanck-Piérard Joanna Woodall Marc Bizer Russell Goulbourne Pamina Fernández Camacho Filipa Araújo Alexandra Eppinger Valerie Mainz Manuel Caballero González Tomas Macsotay

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9789004434868
• ISBN-10: 9004434860
• Artikelnr.: 59295260